The goal after the return to the lunar surface and operations there is human exploration of Mars and the outer solar system. The Artemis program is the first installment of the outward-focused NASA. What is suggested here is a mission that the current administrator, Bill Nelson, should pursue: the next International Space Station (ISS) or, more properly, ISS-2.Īt this point, the widespread understanding is that the next space station will be a private sector endeavor while NASA will focus on space science and exploration beyond low Earth orbit (LEO). James Webb, for example, is remembered as the administrator who led NASA through the Apollo program toward the promised land of the lunar surface, but left before the successful landing in July 1969. The point is not to dwell upon the administrator’s fate but to consider the question of each administrator’s legacy. Why is an Earth-orbiting space station crucial for furthering human exploration and exploitation of outer space? Space stations are “base camps to the stars.” More likely, the administrator either will leave office when the president does, or earlier due to issues with the administration-especially White House staff-or of their own volition. The boundaries on their tenure can come with the end of the appointing president’s tenure: surviving across administrations is possible but usually limited to until a successor is nominated. Every NASA administrator has an expiration date when they enter office, just like Major League Baseball managers or NBA coaches.
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